Newt Gingrich: A campaign in cartoons

Newt Gingrich’s campaign 2012

For more than three decades, Newt Gingrich has been a major player in American politics. His out-sized successes and failures, revolutions and scandals, have rocked the political world. To mark the end of his failed presidential campaign,we are presenting a day-long retrospective on the political phenomenon that was — and is — Newt Gingrich.

He’s a political cartoonist’s dream. The Pillsbury Dough Boy meets Jabba the Hut. To commemorate Newt Gingrich’s official departure from the race for the White House, Texas on the Potomac has compiled a few noteworthy cartoons and videos recalling his most memorable moments (courtesy of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle).